Douluo Continent, I, Huo Yuhao, defy fate with my spiritual eyes.

On the snow-covered road, which was battered by wind and snow, half a foot of snow had accumulated, and people could easily slip and fall if they weren't careful.

The biting wind carried ice and snow, reducing visibility to less than five meters. In the dim light, a figure darted across the snow at an incredible speed.

That's Huo Yuhao!

However, he wasn't alone; he brought two dogs with him.

To be precise, he was sitting on a snowboard, with a snow dog, completely white without a single blemish, tied to him by two ropes.

Snow dogs are unique spirit beasts from the far north. Their special webbed feet allow them to walk freely on the snow, but they are very expensive to train, as they need to be taken from the snow dog den and trained from a young age.

Huo Yuhao also paid a high price to rent two.

"stop!"

Huo Yuhao pulled on the reins, and the snow dog obediently stopped.

Wearing goggles made of black crystal, Huo Yuhao frowned as he looked at a stone tablet by the roadside.

The contents were hidden by a thick layer of snow. Huo Yuhao jumped off his skis and used his thickly wrapped hands to brush away the snow.

"Ahead lies the far north, a forbidden zone for humans. Danger! Halt!"

"arrive!"

The chubby Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm appeared out of nowhere and floated in the air. With Electrolux's guidance these past few days, its control over mental energy had become much more refined.

Huo Yuhao nodded, bent down to take off the equipment, and patted the snow dog's head.

The snow dog understood and dragged the snowboard back to town.

"Now it'll just be the three of us!"

Huo Yuhao stretched and said with a serious expression.

Electrolux's phantom also appeared beside him, looking somewhat tired, holding a large platinum net in his hand.

"Don't worry, everything is ready."

On the way here, Electrolux had already refined part of the remains of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao's cultivation level was too low and the materials were insufficient, so he could only barely make a semi-finished product, a binding net. After special refining, the net was especially effective against ice and snow-type soul beasts.

"Let's go then!"

"Yuhao, remember to let me talk to him first. If you can convince him, we won't have to go through all this trouble."

"Okay! I'll give you the chance to meet your ex."

"Yuhao, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Playing around, Huo Yuhao gradually ventured deeper into the far north.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the far north, a group of men in black robes were also looking at the snow-covered land, holding a protective shield that exuded a terrifying suppressive power.

The leader stared at the map with a greedy and crazed look in his eyes.

"Is this the far north?"

"It seems so."

"Let's go! The Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North—if we capture any one of them, we'll be set for life!"

Their auras were extremely powerful and terrifying; it turned out that one Title Douluo was leading four Soul Douluos.

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Inside a snowdrift, Huo Yuhao lay shivering in a makeshift tactical outpost.

Although his physical attributes had been tempered by whale glue and were now at the level of a three-ring Soul Master, they were still somewhat insufficient to withstand the extreme cold of the far north's core.

The faint warmth emanating from the cyan ring Mu En gave him was enough to freeze Huo Yuhao to the point of idiocy.

His teeth chattered, and Huo Yuhao's voice trembled as he urged Tianmeng Ice Silkworm on.

"Tian... Brother Tianmeng, hurry up, it's so cold!"

Ever since entering the far north, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm has been looking in one direction, its expression a mixture of longing and fear.

Hearing Huo Yuhao urging her, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm swallowed hard, and upon closer inspection, one could see that its short little legs were trembling slightly.

"Yu...Yuhao, don't rush me, I'm a little...a little nervous!"

Huo Yuhao leaned over and patted it, trying to encourage it in this way.

"It's okay. You could do it in your past life, and you can do it again this time! Even if you can't convince us, we'll have to resort to force."

Electrolux also offered words of comfort.

"Go ahead and do it, I'll take care of everything!"

However, with the option of risking one's life, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm took a few deep breaths, and its entire body transformed into a golden light, releasing the terrifying aura unique to million-year-old soul beasts.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into a golden figure, faceless and expressionless, its vast sound waves sweeping across the far north, with a single sentence echoing continuously within it.

"Hyotei, I'm back! Come out and see me!"

Before long, a patch of emerald light appeared on the horizon, as green as jade and as clear as crystal. This emerald light was reflected from the body of a 1.5-meter-long emerald green scorpion.

It stood at a distance, somewhat puzzled and wary, but mostly filled with surprise and greed.

"Tianmeng? You actually dare to come back!"

With the keen senses of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, it was naturally determined that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion was about to face a heavenly tribulation.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm looked down proudly at its old friend who had once chased it for thousands of miles. Now, the old friend had embarked on the path to godhood, while the new friend was in a life-or-death crisis. The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm couldn't help but feel sorrow.

"Hyotei... your time is coming to an end."

It's not a question, it's an affirmative statement.

The emerald green scorpion fell silent, its bright yellow pupils fixed on the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, and it spoke with some resentment.

"Did you come back to mock me? Don't forget, no matter when my time comes, I can still torture you to death!"

Seemingly reminded of past events, Hyotei grew even angrier, and the passing snow and wind became even colder.

"If you hadn't consumed so much ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow, the Snow Empress and I would have already broken through to the million-year-old soul beast realm and ascended to the God Realm! Why would we be bound by the Heavenly Tribulation!"

The more Bingdi spoke, the angrier he became. A bright green light shone forth, and a fierce ice needle shot straight at the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Unfortunately, the ice needle only pierced through the chest of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, causing a brief fluctuation in light and shadow before quickly returning to normal.

"What...what kind of tricks are you using?"

Hyotei was puzzled and became even more vigilant.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm calmly looked at the emerald green scorpion, which resembled a masterpiece of God, and smiled slightly.

"You're still so irritable. Calm down. I'm already dead."

The wind and snow seemed to freeze, and Hyotei's pupils suddenly dilated, his bright yellow eyes filled with disbelief.

"How could that be? Then what about now?"

"I am in a special state now, which I believe is the best path to godhood."

Ice Emperor's face revealed a human-like disdain as it looked at Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm with contempt.

"Are you planning to take the crooked path? It seems you are still just as cowardly! Even if we have to endure countless heavenly tribulations, the Snow Empress and I will survive and ascend to godhood through our own strength."

Tianmeng looked at Bingdi with a hint of pity in her eyes.

"Do you really think that surviving a million-year heavenly tribulation will make you a god?"

Hyotei was very proud, its entire body armor tightened, as if it were puffing out its chest.

"What else? Do you think everyone is as useless as you?"

But these words only earned her a disdainful snort from Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, whose face was filled with reminiscence and fear.

"Ha, naive. After becoming a million-year-old soul beast, what I felt was not freedom, but restraint. It was as if the heavens and earth were telling me that I should either weaken my strength or break through the world."

Tianmeng Bingcan paused, her face darkening, before continuing.

"I've also tried to break through the world, but I found it too difficult... The world's constraints are too strong, unless there's a divine position to assist me, but I've discovered that no soul beasts in the world possess divine positions!"

Hyotei listened intently, but at the end he cried out in horror, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"What?!"

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm seemed to have suddenly become exhausted, as if all its bones had been removed.

"Yes, there are no soul beast godhoods... I even sensed some fragmented inheritances of human godhoods, but there isn't a single soul beast godhood..."